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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari) Alternative Name: Moel y Gaer Bodfari
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 1.28 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Denbighshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Denbigh  Nearest Village: Bodfari
Map Ref: SJ09527080  Landranger Map Number: 116
Latitude: 53.226509N  Longitude: 3.356784W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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3 Ambience:
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari)
Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari) submitted by postman : Looking east south east through the entrance to cairn topped Moel y Parc (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Denbighshire. Moel y Gaer Bodfari is one of a chain of six hillforts on the Clwydian Range, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Erin Robinson, Community Participation Officer for the Heather and Hillforts Project (up to 2012), said “Very little is known about these monuments. The work that Oxford University is undertaking may help to shed some light on why the enclosure was built, what was inside it and how it was constructed.”

“We do not know what they were built for; whether as villages, for defence, for status or for animals, but the amount of effort that went into building these enclosures and the fact that they are still impressive monuments today 2500 years after their construction, shows just how important they were both to our ancestors and to ourselves today.”

Note: A guided walk on Sunday 28th July around this privately owned hillfort in North Wales, to see Oxford University fieldwork on site
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Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari)
Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari) submitted by postman : Looking south west (Vote or comment on this photo)

Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari)
Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari) submitted by postman : Looking west to a cloud smothered Snowdonia (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari) submitted by postman : Looking north (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari) submitted by Andy B : Offa's Dyke Path approaching Coed Moel-y-Gaer Copyright Tim Heaton and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SJ0970 : View towards Adwy-wynt by Chris Heaton
by Chris Heaton
©2009(licence)
SJ0970 : Offa's Dyke Path by Eirian Evans
by Eirian Evans
©2020(licence)
SJ0970 : Tir amaethyddol islaw Moel y Gaer / Farmland below Moel y Gaer by Ian Medcalf
by Ian Medcalf
©2014(licence)
SJ0970 : Hillside path by Eirian Evans
by Eirian Evans
©2020(licence)
SJ0970 : Offa's Dyke path crossing a field by Mark Anderson
by Mark Anderson
©2019(licence)

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Visit excavations at Iron Age Hillfort Moel y Gaer Bodfari, Sun 28th July by Andy B on Friday, 19 July 2013
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Open Day to view the excavations at Moel y gaer Bodfari, this is the third year that archaeologists from Oxford University have been working at this important hillfort.

Dewch i ymweld â chloddfa Bryngaer Oes Haearn Moel y Gaer. Diwrnod agored i weld y gloddfa ym Moel y Gaer Bodfari, dyma’r drydedd flwyddyn i archeolegwyr o Brifysgol Rhydychen weithio ar y fryngaer bwysig yma.

Bydd mwy o fanylion ar dudalen facebook Gwasanaethau Cefn Gwlad Sir Ddinbych yn nes at y dyddiad

Rhaid archebu ymlaen llaw
Mae’r digwyddiad yma’n rhad ac am ddim

Organiser: Denbighshire County Council
Prebooking required
This event is free to attend

Sun 28th Jul 2013 11:00-15:00

Book/details Loggerheads County Park 01352 810586

Check Denbighshire Countryside Service facebook page for details near the time.

http://www.facebook.com/DenbighshireCountrysideService

Email: fiona.gale@denbighshire.gov.uk

Part of the Festival of British Archaeology 2013
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Guided walk to Moel y Gaer Hillfort, Bodfari, Thursday 1st Sept 2011 by Andy B on Tuesday, 30 August 2011
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Visitors are invited to join archaeologists Fiona Gale and Erin Robinson on a guided walk at Moel y Gaer hillfort, Bodfari.

Oxford University are currently undertaking archaeological survey work on the ancient enclosure, which is thought to date back to the Iron Age, around 2500 years ago.

A guided walk on Thursday 1st September at 2pm will guide visitors up from the village to the hillfort, learning about its history along the way.

Moel y Gaer Bodfari is one of a chain of six hillforts on the Clwydian Range, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Hillforts are giant enclosures which were built by digging huge ditches and large banks with the tools of the time- possibly bone and wooden shovels and antler picks.

Erin Robinson, Community Participation Officer for the Heather and Hillforts Project, said “As these monuments were built before the written record in Britain, very little is known about them. The work that Oxford University is undertaking may help to shed some light on why the enclosure was built, what was inside it and how it was constructed.

“We do not know what they were built for; whether as villages, for defence, for status or for animals, but the amount of effort that went into building these enclosures and the fact that they are still impressive monuments today 2500 years after their construction, shows just how important they were both to our ancestors and to ourselves today.”

The walk will meets at The Old Forge Stores, Bodfari on Thursday 1st September at 2pm.

Visitors for the open day are asked to meet at the Offa’s Dyke Path stile to the north of the hillfort at Grid Reference SJ096712 at 11am for the morning session or 2.30pm for the afternoon session.

The walks involve some steep slopes and sensible clothing and footwear is advised.

For more information please contact Denbighshire Countryside Service on 01824 708262.
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Re: Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari) by Anonymous on Saturday, 15 September 2007
I lived at bodfari from 1953 to 1974 and played most of my chidhood days on Moel-y-Gaer mountain.
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